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Maximum Wishes gained in a turn?

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Cave-o-sapien:
This question came up in a league match chat today. What are the maximum number of wishes you can gain in a turn?

silvern:
The question as phrased is pretty easy to answer--12, since this is the number of wishes present in the game, and it is fairly easy to gain all 12
(for example: 3 cards+Procession- Procession-Procession-Leprechaun-Leprechaun-Procession-Leprechaun-Leprechaun+ more cards + 2 magic lamps (one passed by masquerade).)

Harder is the question, how many times in a turn can you gain a wish? The answer ought to be higher, but I have no idea how to definitively determine a solution.

faust:
We modify everyone's favorite infinite loop:


--- Quote from: majiponi on November 04, 2016, 09:36:41 am ---Fewer cards I have found to loop infinitely.
6 cards, no Event

Kingdom: Overlord, Lurker, Raze, Watchtower, Crown, Mandarin

Setup: trash Mandarin
Deck: 5 Overlord, 2 Watchtower

You have 2 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Watchtower
---- play Watchtower
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as Watchtower

Now you have 5 Overlord and Watchtower in your hand.

LOOP FROM HERE

play Overlord as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord)
---- play Overload as an Action costing up to $5
-- play Overload as Watchtower

LOOP END

Use Band of Misfits and Ferry instead of Overlord to make this more practical.

--- End quote ---

We add Library, Village, Trader, Pathfinding to the kingdom. The setup is this:

Trash down deck with Trader to just 7 Villages, 4 Overlords, Watchtower, Trader, Wish, trashing all Silvers in the process. Put +1 card token on Overlord.

Start of turn: 7 Villages in hand. Play all, drawing 2 Overlords, Watchtower, Trader. The rest of the deck is Wish + 2 Overlords. Now we do:

play Overlord (drawing Wish) as Crown
-- play Overload (drawing Overlord) as Crown
---- play Overload (drawing Overlord) as Crown
------ play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
------ play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
-------- topdeck 3 Overlords
---- play Overload (drawing Overlord) as Lurker (gain Overlord, topdeck it)
-- play Overload (drawing Overlord) as Leprechaun (trash Gold with Watchtower, topdeck Wish)

Mic Qsenoch:

--- Quote from: faust on August 14, 2018, 04:27:35 am ---We add Library, Village, Trader, Pathfinding and Expedition to the kingdom. The setup is this:

Trash down deck with Trader to just 7 Villages, 4 Overlords, Watchtower, Trader, Wish, trashing all Silvers in the process.

The turn before, buy Expedition. Put +1 card token on Overlord.

Start of turn: 7 Villages in hand. Play all, drawing 4 Overlords, Watchtower, Trader, Wish. Now we do:

play Wish (gain Crown, reveal Trader to nothing)
play Overlord (drawing Overlord) as Crown
-- play Overload as Crown
---- play Overload as Crown
------ play Overload as Crown
-------- play Overlord as Raze (trash itself)
-------- play Overlord as Lurker (gain Mandarin, reveal Watchtower to trash)
-------- topdeck 4 Overlords
------ play Overload as Lurker (gain Overlord, topdeck it)
---- play Overload as Leprechaun (trash Gold with Watchtower, topdeck Wish)
-- play Overload as Library, draw Wish + 4 Overlords

--- End quote ---

This looks like it works to me, so these are just nitpicks on the write up: I count 5 Overlords needed in the deck, and the Library doesn't really draw that much because the last 3 Overlord plays all draw a card (I don't think you even need the Library or other draw with +card on Overlord).

RTT:
just a thought. noone said you had to gain wishes from leprechaun. you could also trash a wish and gain it from the trash with lurker over and over a again.

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